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Up-to-date Windows 2000 universal install media creation guide

Kurt_Aust

Posted 22 June 2012 - 03:08 AM

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OK, I've altered the security warning to:
As Windows 2000 has been out of support since July 2010 and no current major web browser (or plugin) works reliably on it, it is not safe to use Windows 2000 on an Internet facing machine.

tomasz86

Posted 22 June 2012 - 04:07 AM

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I still think it's just a bug in the new version (which is known to be very buggy). I've seen many people reporting in the Opera forums that Opera 12.00 works fine in Windows 2000. Have you tested it on more than one machine?

Saying that

Opera have dropped support for Windows 2000

while the company (Opera Software) officially says that Windows 2000 is supported and doesn't say anything about leaving it is just not true...

It is not a new situation that early versions of a major release are buggy/unstable. It was like that in case of Opera 10 & 11 too. I'd just wait for a while until they fix the bugs and then see if the problem still persists.

tomasz86

Posted 19 July 2012 - 04:04 PM

OK, I've changed the notice to indicate that Opera is buggy while Firefox no longer supports Windows 2000.

If Opera gets their act together I'll indicate that they're the only major browser to still support Windows 2000.

Well, the Win2k support has been dropped in the latest development snapshot of Opera 12 released yesterday It does work after changing the dependencies (no unofficial kernel/updates required) but the browser itself is still extremely buggy.

Actually, it seems that Firefox 10 ESR is the only (stable) major browser officially supporting the system. Firefox 10 ESR is going to be supported until Firefox 19 is released (info). Standard versions of Firefox starting from v13 require the unofficial kernel to run. On the other hand, if someone doesn't want to / cannot use the unofficial kernel then there are other small browsers like Qupzilla which are actively developed and do work in a stock Win2k (Qupzilla uses Webkit engine so it's also very fast).

Spoiler

I don't mention Chromium and its clones because they are still not 100% functional even with the unofficial kernel and all other unofficial updates installed.

Edit: If someone still wants to install the newest development build of Opera 12 without too much hassle then install BWC kernel first, and after that you will be able to run the Opera 12.50 alpha installer normally. One good thing is that the UI freezes so common in all previous builds of Opera 12 seem to be really gone in this one.

Edit2: By the way, this development snapshot is way more stable then the "official" release.

Posted 04 August 2012 - 07:17 PM

tomasz86

Posted 20 August 2012 - 09:30 AM

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I'm writing now from Windows 8 Enterprise (trial) + Opera 12.01 and I've experienced exactly the same bug (frozen UI) as when the browser was used in Windows 2000. Initially I thought that the bug was somewhat related to Win2k but now can say for sure that Opera 12 is just buggy in general

Kurt_Aust

Posted 20 August 2012 - 01:51 PM

PCBONEZ

Posted 05 September 2012 - 11:45 PM

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Pardon the latecomer newbie question but I read this whole thread and I don't see it mentioned anywhere, so I'm gonna ask.
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Is there are prerequisite SP level for the original W2k media, or does this SP update all of them even with no SP present on the original CD?
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Thanks.
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tomasz86

Posted 05 September 2012 - 11:49 PM

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Pardon the latecomer newbie question but I read this whole thread and I don't see it mentioned anywhere, so I'm gonna ask..Is there are prerequisite SP level for the original W2k media, or does this SP update all of them even with no SP present on the original CD?

Unofficial Service Pack 5.1 is cumulative which means that all previous service packs are included in it.

Addition:Download from MediaFire Hotfix_2000sp5_N_date.7z (.Net 1.1 SP1 & .Net 2.0 SP2) and extract it into the same directory that you chose to extract the Config archive into (see notes part 4 for other options).MD5: F4D16EA4A7FA6E5D09B1476D8F836625SHA-1: CBB4576F6BA431F53E3935DDFDF92DE8F9D9EA96

Download from MediaFire Hotfix_2000sp5_N_date.7z (.Net 1.1 SP1 & .Net 2.0 SP2) and extract it into the same directory that you chose to extract the Config archive into (see notes part 4 for other options).MD5: A853D3E1986C742AC3FBB28E00343FD8SHA-1: 7AE46B3AA0AA58FCB1AEDB4F0A41E92AFB8EC1DF

Kurt_Aust

Posted 16 February 2013 - 11:07 PM

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Delete:RunOnce\dotNet20SP2_UH_Jan13.exe

Add:Download from MediaFire Hotfix_2000sp5_N_date.7z (.Net 1.1 SP1 & .Net 2.0 SP2) and extract it into the same directory that you chose to extract the Config archive into (see notes part 4 for other options).MD5: 2D7D627B72976FAA82EB709A0C37BE0CSHA-1: 603861CC10B73B729CF22BFDAA3ABD8A614DE4D4

PCBONEZ

Posted 17 March 2013 - 04:37 AM

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Anomaly? Problem? Bug?
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I don't have the skills (or time) to figure out what happened, just reporting something I saw during an install on actual hardware.
Build was W2k Advanced Server without any non-MS add-ons beyond 3Ware RAID drivers.
[Is for a temp file server to store 3TB of data on while I rebuild the 'real' one.]

I wasn't paying THAT much attention (fully automated install) but at one point I looked up and saw errors in a dos-box window.
For each of the following:
NDP1.1sp1-KB867460-x86.exe
NDP1.1sp1-KB971108-x86.exe
NDP1.1sp1-KB2742597-X86.exe
It said something to the effect that they aren't ?programs? or batch files and would not be installed....
(Was kind of fast.... 'programs' may have been a different word but it did say 'or batch files' after that.)
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Might be nothing but I don't even know how to determine that. (I am NOT a programmer.)
Just reporting to the experts that actually know what they are doing...
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And thanks for all your work! (All of you.)
For the most part I dunno what I'm doing but with your directions I can create up-to-date custom builds that actually work!!
(I prefer W2k because it doesn't commit suicide for too many changes when I'm in the middle of something.)
Thanks!
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PCBONEZ

Posted 17 March 2013 - 05:45 AM

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Also the latest version of Avast anti-virus once again works with Windows 2000.

.Please define "latest version" - because such things are subject to change with time.(By date) When you wrote that the "latest" was version 7-something.Currently your link on page 1 of this thread goes to version 8-something.Which are confirmed to work in W2k?.Thanks..

tomasz86

Posted 17 March 2013 - 10:16 AM

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Please define "latest version" - because such things are subject to change with time.(By date) When you wrote that the "latest" was version 7-something.Currently your link on page 1 of this thread goes to version 8-something.Which are confirmed to work in W2k?

Avast (including the newest version which is 8 at the moment) still officially supports Windows 2000. Their official requirements are Windows 2000 SP4 + Update Rollup 1 but in reality you also MUST install IE6, i.e. it doesn't work with IE5.5.

Kurt_Aust

Posted 19 March 2013 - 02:11 PM

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Added the post end of life hotfixes suggested by tomasz86 (as a separate download).

PCBONEZ: If you were using the default install, then you are using updated .Net installers provided by User_Hidden. The "errors" you saw were the batch files searching for the original Microsoft installers for those people who chose not to use the updated installers (see notes part 4).

As thomasz86 noted, Avast version 8.0.1483.72 works on Windows 2000 (although I don't care for the Windows 8 skin a lot of programs are using lately).